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Home›Traditions›Pentecostal

Pentecostal Illustrations

The immediate, experiential work of the Holy Spirit and the expectation of spiritual gifts.

Key question: “How does this text reveal the present-day work and power of the Holy Spirit?”

23,656 sermon illustrations through the Pentecostal lens

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The Bridge They Didn't Ask For

In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina swallowed the Gulf Coast, thousands of residents in St. Bernard Parish refused evacuation orders. Some doubted the storm's strength. Others...

Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10Universal

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The Girl in Her Father's Arms

Hurricane Harvey dumped fifty-one inches of rain on Beaumont, Texas, in August 2017. Marcus Williams waded through chest-deep water on Caldwell Street, carrying his four-year-old...

Hebrews 13:5-6Universal

223 words

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The Flag on the Mailbox

After Hurricane Katrina swallowed everything Margaret Boudreaux owned in the Lower Ninth Ward, she stood in ankle-deep mud and told her grown children she was...

Genesis 9:8-17Universal

247 words

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The Address She Kept in Her Pocket

For eleven years after Hurricane Katrina swallowed her shotgun house on Pauline Street, Margaret Thibodaux carried a folded scrap of paper in her coat pocket....

Revelation 21:1-4Universal

237 words

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Left Behind: End-Times Beatitude Faithfulness - Dispensational (Matthew 5:3-12)

Imagine a scene set in a dimly lit church basement, the air heavy with the scent of old wood and faint whispers of prayer. A group of weary believers huddles together, their faces etched with concern and determination. They are...

Matthew 5:3-12Universal

298 words

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The Garden After the Hurricane

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico with 155-mile-per-hour winds. In the mountain town of Utuado, María Elena Rodríguez stood in what had...

Psalm 80:1-7, 17-19Universal

238 words

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John Woolman's Plain Coat

In 1758, John Woolman stood before the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends in an undyed wool coat. The other Quakers wore fine fabrics — indigo,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

233 words

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Corrie ten Boom and the Father Who Would Not Let Go

In 1892, Casper ten Boom opened his watchmaker's shop each morning in Haarlem, Netherlands, and each evening he gathered his children around the table for...

Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9Universal

231 words

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Eight Hundred Miles for Twenty-Two Men

In April 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the frozen shore of Elephant Island and faced an impossible choice. Twenty-two of his men were stranded on...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

239 words

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Science Illustration: Physics and the Stability of the Universe

A physicist once stood before a group of students, illustrating the remarkable stability of the universe. He pointed to a massive pendulum, swaying gently in the center of the room, its arc both beautiful and precise. As it swung, he...

Job 38:1-7Universal

248 words

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The Lock That Was Never Locked

For eleven years, Margaret Chen kept a steel lockbox under her bed in a small apartment in Portland. Inside were letters from her estranged father...

John 8:32Universal

252 words

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The Vow That Changed Everything

On a rainy Tuesday in March 2019, Carlos Mendez stood in a federal courtroom in San Antonio and raised his right hand. After fourteen years...

Romans 10:9Universal

250 words

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The Stadium That Held Every Flag

On July 23, 2021, athletes from 206 nations marched into Tokyo's Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony. Cameras captured a Somali sprinter walking beside a...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

245 words

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The Beacon Fires of the Armada

In the spring of 1588, Queen Elizabeth ordered a chain of hilltop beacons built across England, stretching from Plymouth to London. Each watchman had one...

Mark 13:24-37Universal

244 words

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The Ground Beneath Hatay

On February 6, 2023, at 4:17 a.m., the ground beneath southern Turkey buckled. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake toppled thousands of buildings across Hatay province in seconds....

Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9Universal

220 words

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The Night the Hospital Waiting Room Erupted

On March 14, 2019, a family of eleven packed the third-floor waiting room at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Rosa Gutierrez had been in...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

282 words

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The Pillar That Proclaimed Too Soon

In 303 AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian launched the most systematic persecution the early church had ever faced. He burned scriptures, demolished churches, and stripped...

Psalm 2Universal

225 words

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The Thunderstorm on the Road to Erfurt

On July 2, 1505, a twenty-one-year-old law student named Martin Luther was walking back to the University of Erfurt when a violent thunderstorm overtook him...

Psalm 29Universal

234 words

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The Phone Call at 3 AM

On March 17, 2019, Sarah Chen walked into Harborview Medical Center in Seattle expecting to say goodbye. Her seventeen-year-old son, Marcus, had been in a...

Matthew 28:1-10Universal

222 words

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The Fixed Point in a Turning Sky

For thousands of years, sailors crossing the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the vast Pacific have looked up at night and found one star that does...

Hebrews 13:5-6Universal

233 words

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The Missionary's One-Room Fortress

On a moonless night in 1862, missionary John G. Paton crouched inside his small mission house on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides....

Proverbs 18:10Universal

245 words

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The Mantle on the Tarmac

When missionary pilot Nate Saint was killed by Waodani warriors in Ecuador in January 1956, his son Steve was just five years old. The boy...

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14Universal

232 words

Movie Analogy

The Passion of the Christ: The Good Shepherd Who Lays Down His Life - Christocentric (Psalm 23)

Imagine a small, sun-drenched village nestled in the heart of the rolling hills of Judea, where the air carries the fragrant scent of wild rosemary and thyme. In this village, a shepherd named David tends to his flock, his hands...

Psalm 23Universal

303 words

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Nature Illustration: Creation Care and Stewardship

The other day, I watched my young son kneel in our backyard, captivated by something small and seemingly insignificant—a tiny ant carrying a crumb many times its size. With furrowed brows, he muttered to himself, “How can it do that?”...

Job 38:1-7Universal

235 words